MK's Franken Book

The Introduction

This is my frankening cook book, with every "recipe"
I've done, the good, bad and maybe even the ugly." As Catherine Aird said, "If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning." I'll never hit the "perfect formula" but I've improved over time and decided to
share what I've learned and created. I still have a tendency to add too much pigment or glitter so if you intend to try and recreate one, use less than I did and test often. I prefer to think of my franken book as a guide to how things appear rather than as "directions".

In the beginning, I stuck to a few “rules” when it came to naming the polishes I’d created. Since the formulas were one pigment in a clear, pearl or metallic base, the polish took on the name of the pigment used in it. But as the formulas grew more complex, the cutesy names of store bought polish I once found an attempt to be too clever made far more sense; by bottle #200 something, I was out of good ideas. Now the titles may be something that just popped in my head, from a song that was playing in the background, the name of a flower with similar colors or one derived from the endless list of rocks, gemstones and minerals. And sometimes they're just stupid, a forced effort to give it a tag. A few others have no names at all, yet.

For the examples, I used my "nail sticks" which are either a natural color nail, a black one or half white-half black nail depending on the finish of the franken. These have been
photographed under the same lighting circumstances which is during daylight and
under a simulated day-light light bulb or Ott Lite for consistency. The colors may be off
slightly as your monitor or my camera produces variation so be aware of this in
the event you try to duplicate one.

Those that used a recipe that was once on TKB Trading's recipe page (the recipes were pulled when the Pops Collection was discontinued) are their property and will not be represented here.

If you have questions, comments, requests, whatever, feel
free to say it.-MK

MK’s Creations

For the sake of saving space, almost everything is abbreviated- an abbreviation key below. Some frankens use the same polish as a base since I had them, in the beginning, in bulk. LMN Platinum is Love My Nails brand, Platinum being a white pearl color. WW Steel is Wet ‘n’ Wild Steel from the Precious Metals line, a clear based polish with massive amounts of micro silver glitter. LAG Silver is L.A. Girls Metallic Silver, a polish nearly identical to Steel.

Abbreviation Key

Names in Red means the polish “went bad”

*denotes flub

d: drop spoon of pigment

drop(s): liquid drop

D/C: Duocrome or Duochrome

SF: SpectraFlair

Col.: Colorona

Met: Metallic

Par: Paradise

MS: Magnesium Stearate

®: Color Recipe
NSA: Non-Specified Amount

The drop, smidgen & pinch measurements (tad & dash are seen on some color recipes) refer to TKB Trading’s 5 spoon set

Just as a reminder, TKB's Luster Base is intended for pigments and the Glamour Base, abbreviated Glam Base, is for glitter suspension.

Full size bottle. TKB Libra Blues in clear. Libra Blues, Taurus Orion & Capricorn Sea, if used with clear as I did, will dry somewhat matte so the more clear versus pigment you use, the glossier it will be. Drained out clear, replaced with Glam base

43 Capricorn Sea
over itself

Clear

Full size bottle. TKBCapricornSea in clear. Libra Blues, Taurus Orion & Capricorn Sea, if used with clear as I did, will dry somewhat matte so the more clear versus pigment you use, the glossier it will be. Drained out clear, replaced with Glam base

44 Taurus Orion
over itself

Clear

Full size bottle. TKB Taurus Orion in clear. Libra Blues, Taurus Orion & Capricorn Sea, if used with clear as I did, will dry somewhat matte so the more clear versus pigment you use, the glossier it will be. Drained out clear, replaced with Glam base

Full size. Bad SH Red Carpet, WW Infatuation, CS Gold Rush, SH
Cherry Nice. I'll point out here that when I say "Bad" Red
Carpet, it was a polish I ruined by using nail polish remove rather than
thinner. This, aside from ruining the consistency, made the polish an opaque
red, much like TKB's red base.

Full size bottle. 1/4 SH (NP) Golden Tourmaline, 1/8 WW 9021Orange, 3d & 2 smidgen BF Holo Fuchsia. This was actually sort of a turning point for me- I realized that to have truly brilliant glitter polishes, the polish should be jelly based.

This part started in a TKB mini: 1/3 E Shine of the Times, 1d SF35, 1/3 SC Ciao Bella. Transferred to full size bottle which was then appx. 1/3 full, added Shine of the Times to under 1/2 & KC Chunky Holo Clover

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size, at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

501 Venus

over black

D/C

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size., at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

502 Pluto

over black

D/C

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size., at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

503 Earth over black

D/C

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size., at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

504 Neptune over black

D/C

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size., at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

505 Mercury
over black

D/C

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size., at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

506 Mars
over black

D/C

TKB mini. 2/3 Glam Base, 1/3 clear, 4d Travel to pigment. 4 drops of pigment is still too much in a bottle of this size., at least with diluted suspension base. Converted to full size bottle, added more mica base

After using contents for #s 510, 511, 512 & 513 (each are TKB minis and were appx. 1/8 full of 514), bottle was roughly 1/2 full, split between this bottle & #515, leaving this bottle 1/4 full. Added Glam base tgo 3/4 full and added more of the three silver holos from AC, GU .062 hex & GU .035 sq, no more than 2d of each.

515 Ambrosia
over black & white

Glitter
D/C

Full size bottle. Starting out bottle is less than 1/4 full. Added Glam base to 3/4 full, 1 pinch 481804-A3

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. PI Bite Me, SC All About You, LAG Gold Metal, TKB Gold Reflecks. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

569 NPJ Green
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. CG Emerald Sparkle, TKB Green Sparks, TKB Turquoise Tweak. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

570 NPJ Aqua
over white

Mildly D/C

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. CC Metamorphosis, WW Teal of Fortune, TKB Turquoise Tweak. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

571 NPJ Blue
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. SC Ciao Bella, other contents unknown. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

572 NPJ Lime
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. CC Fly With Me, WW Ocean Grotto, TKB Green Sparks or Seawitch Green. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

573 NPJ Purple
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. SC Daddy's Girl, TKB Her Majesty. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

574 NPJ Red
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. CG Ruby Pumps, SH Red Carpet. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

575 NPJ Orange
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. WW 9021Orange, unlabelled orange colored LAG Metal, TKB Bronze Reflecks & Burning Leaves. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

576 NPJ Pink
over white

Glitter

Made specifically for nail polish jewelry. Full size bottle. SC Forget Now, TKB Pinky Pink, small amount Spoiled Shrimp on the Barbie. I assume there is Glam base in there but I didn't make note of it.

I am sure you have heard of the nailventurous floam and pinkerbell polishes. She uses a matte glitter in them. Do you know where to buy such a thing? I am unable to get hold of the polishes themselves since they sell out within minutes everytime she opens her etsy store. Let me know!